Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-04-21

". II. & b. j. BENNETT, Publishers.
MINERAL POINT, WISCONSIN,
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MISS MARGARET BLsIsE denies the accu-
sation of intended matrimony, and e1-
plains that the outfit which she has been
purchasing in New York ia for the trip
TO Europe with her father.
GOVERNOR BARrLErr, OF California, was
kissed by fifty yoang ladie. at public
reception thu other day. But that Is
very different thing from kissing fifty
pretty girls, as old Tscump sherman can
testify.
TuouAs STANLEY, blind New York pen
sioner, fell in a fl and died when told that
his pension had been trebled and $4,000
Of back pension was due him. In his
Ease less pension money would have
meant longer life.
"BrLLr" EMrHsoN, of Hayerly's min
sirels, is said to have salary Of $500 a
week and private car for himself and
wife. The next beat thing TO being a
railroad president is TO be the leading
member of popular minstrel show.
Tux moulders in tho stove boundaries
Of Chi.avo several hundred ia number,
are on a strike because their employers
rs.vire them to work from patterns furn-
ished By boycostcd arm OF st. Louis.
Ike strike extends to other cities.
THE Detroit Free Press has become
satisfied that s'the only thing which
will cure girl who wants to go on the
stage and become an actress il to be run
over by freight train loaded with rail
road iron
The Wholesale system robbery that
has been practiced upon the PAN
handle railroad shows that the offete
east il not so far behind in the larceny
line as has been suppo-ed in the wild
west.
Dir. JOSEPH PARKER, Of London, will de-
liver the eulogy on Henry Ward Beecher,
If the date can be changed from j1ne
to June "a. A eulogy by such man rs
Parker on such a man as Beecher, will be
nearly as interesting az one by Beecher
on Parker would have been.
Mrs. sAHAa +. Howr, of Boston, the
woman who several years ago defrauded
largo number Of poor people out of
their savings. deposited in her so-called
Woman Bank" has repeated the same
old game. L, appears that after her term
of Imprisonment had expired she resum-
ed her snide banking operations, and now
che Is reported TO have ebscouded with
$4,000 of the money of her victims.
WILLIAM KIssANE's last marriage was
quite romantic. He me, beautiful wo-
man in Nicaragua, and fen in love with
her, but she married another man and
vent to California TO live. Kissaue after
ward went to California, and in Sacra-
nento found his old sweetheart leading a
miserable lie with q drunken husband.
when the mau was past reformation she
obtained divorce, and afterward mar
ried Kissaue.
lrpttlaEt4,va W
has contrivsd scheme whereby the
medicine buyer will he somewhat pro
tected. lie has connected every bottle
containing poison with the prescription
desk by electricity, SO that whenever one
is touched a bell gives warning and wakes
the comPoander up TO see, by second
look, vhethef he has the bottle he wants
or not,
Tux gross postal receipts at thirty of
the larger pos,ofices IN the country for
the first three months of the present year
were $A746,0fG, an increase of $751;, tsl
over the corresponding period last year
or 81 per cent The receipts in Chicago
we're $559,S88, increase $S9S3; in st.
Louis 500 COS, increase S7ss3; Mlwau-
keo $Gs,7sa increase $500,
Ink parliament of the Dominion Of
Canada met at Ottawa, Thursday The
Governor General, in his opening speech,
expressed the hops that the peading